Video Killed the Radio Star

Last night, I thought I was going to have to bury my Kindle.  I had laid a book on top of it.  It was a light book.  When I went to turn it on, all I got was black bar on half the screen.  I tried everything I could think of.  I did a hard reset.  I even went back to factory settings.  I lost everything in the process.  Still the bar persisted.  Then, I pushed down on the screen, near the edge.  It went away, sort of.  Eventually, it all went away.  I would have been in mourning if my Kindle had died.  I do have a back up.  I'm used to the old one.